The Government’s announcements on hospital reform are bold and deserve widespread support, writes John Menadue. The government is to be applauded and encouraged.
Private health funds
What do you think we’re running here? Medicare?
The main problem for private health funds is simply that people don’t really want our product. Jennifer Doggett puts the case for private health insurance.
Health policy geared for hospitals and the well-to-do
Yes, of course it’s a pre-election, pre-emptive strike by the Labor states and territories in their perennial battle with the Feds over hospital funding. But that doesn’t mean the report analysing Federal health funding, released yesterday by states and territories, doesn’t say a few things worth hearing.
